Tothink that opera is just musicals for posh people in same way that Archers is for people too uptight to admit to enjoying soaps?

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Huh? Huh?

I mean, there's about this much difference [holds up finger and thumb] between 'My tiny hand is frozen' and summat like 'You're a queer one, Julie Jordan' n'est-ce pas?

musicals are tedious - broing story line, have fifty million words were one will do and they all sound hte same

you've lost me. Is one of those an opera and one's the Archers?

Musicals are also wonderful - if good! You can see plenty of crap opera and musicals. But anyone can enjoy something like Tales of Hoffmann at the Royal Opera.

One of the most tedious evenings of my life was spent watching Cats at the theatre. Extremely unplesant.

Final trio from Gounod's Faust, one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard.

Mimi just annoys me, always has.

Give me Turandot any time - there's a woman who took no nonsense

Say what you like about Opera and Musicals (apart from My Fair Lady) but leave Th'Archers out of it, that and the shipping forecast are my happy place

Musicals do not sound the same. Joseph sounds nothing like Sweeney Todd which sounds nothing like the Rocky Horror Show.

no. i enjoy archers and eastenders in equal measures and will admit it that freely, but archers does have a sort of cosyness that eastenders doesnt give, driving home in the pouring rain in the winter with the archers home is very comforting. 15 minutes escape that you can have on in the backround whilst cooking dinner/emptying dishwasher/laundry...

I listened to teh Archers for a short while because a friend did so I thought I'd give it a go.

It was terrible.

So given the choice, I think I'd choose to see an opera. Maybe Mme Butterfly because I like one of the tunes in it. The sad one.

Guffaw at Thunder's fury.
Anevening watching Cats would rank up there with the evening I spent unblocking the downstairs loo of a mix of shit, bog roll and sonmeone's bloated bloodstained sanitary towel.

Musicals are good to

I think its Wagner that puts me off Opera....all those hats with horns on and big women howling about the gotterdammerung (is that german for broken ladder???)

Dont do soaps of any kind...they are written by, acted by and made for morons.

LOVE musicals though...its my secret vice...I dance round the kitchen singing "Wunderbar" from "Kiss me Kate" and force my dc to listen. Cant help it. I even listen to Sarah Kennedy on Radio 2 every morning for the "showtune".

musicals are essentially cheese

I'm not a big fan of Cats, One for the dance fanatics I think. But I love The Phantom Of The Opera, Sweeney Todd, Rocky Horror Show, Fiddler On The Roof etc.

If anyone starts on classical music, blood will be shed.

a coupel of times, I have tuned in to Elaine Paige on Radio 2 and her musical show tunes programme.

It is dire. Every song a dud.

sorry muscials are utter sh*te, opera is just wonderful escapism, as much about the music as the song. and also no americans.

I saw La Boheme once, it made me want to lose the will to live.

I can't stand musicals either.

Although I do rather like Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves

My favourite musicals : Guys and Dolls, Showboat, Kiss me Kate, Oklahoma.

Modern musicals can be a bit earnest - Les Mis drove me to distraction.

surely musicals are as much escapism as opera. It sure ain't real life

I'd love to see Les Mis.

Hmmm, I have always cringed a bit at musicals. Everytime they break into song my heart sinks a little deeper

Elaine Page and inadvertently switching her on plunges me into a Sunday depression not equalled since returning to boarding school in uniform after a w/end at home.

Hilter liked Wagner. 'Nuff said.